Came across this article, thought some of you may be interested:
from abcbodybuilding.com:
You need to understand that the more frequently you eat, the more muscle you will gain and the leaner you will be. This is for several reasons, three of which are:
A. High meal frequency allows you to consume smaller meals throughout the day, rather than larger meals in only a few sittings. Your body can absorb smaller meals with a greater proficiency than it can larger ones. For example a 600 calorie meal can be digested, and used to build muscle much easier than a 1200 calorie meal. That being said, if a person is bulking and eats six, 600 calorie meals, then he will get a total of 3, 600 calories. If he had however ate 3, 1200 calorie meals then he would have been more likely to store fat. You see the more overloaded our digestive system becomes, the more fat we will store. In addition, as I stated smaller meals will be absorbed and used with much greater efficiency. The more your body can use the nutrients you feed it, the more muscle you will gain. Period!
B. Food is the most anabolic substance known to man! It is literally more powerful, then the most potent steroid! Anytime you eat a well balanced, nutritious meal, you place your body into a state of anabolism. Or building up. Anytime your body runs out of food, it turns on itself for energy, this is called catabolism. Or tearing down. Which is why meal frequency is so vital, the more consistent you eat, the longer you will keep your body in a state in which it can optimally build muscle!
C. Meal frequency induces thermogenious. Every time you eat, your bodies temperature rises and you burn more calories. In other words, it keeps your metabolism extremely high, which can benefit you, by keeping you leaner on a bulk and also burning fat at a much higher rate on a cut.
from abcbodybuilding.com:
You need to understand that the more frequently you eat, the more muscle you will gain and the leaner you will be. This is for several reasons, three of which are:
A. High meal frequency allows you to consume smaller meals throughout the day, rather than larger meals in only a few sittings. Your body can absorb smaller meals with a greater proficiency than it can larger ones. For example a 600 calorie meal can be digested, and used to build muscle much easier than a 1200 calorie meal. That being said, if a person is bulking and eats six, 600 calorie meals, then he will get a total of 3, 600 calories. If he had however ate 3, 1200 calorie meals then he would have been more likely to store fat. You see the more overloaded our digestive system becomes, the more fat we will store. In addition, as I stated smaller meals will be absorbed and used with much greater efficiency. The more your body can use the nutrients you feed it, the more muscle you will gain. Period!
B. Food is the most anabolic substance known to man! It is literally more powerful, then the most potent steroid! Anytime you eat a well balanced, nutritious meal, you place your body into a state of anabolism. Or building up. Anytime your body runs out of food, it turns on itself for energy, this is called catabolism. Or tearing down. Which is why meal frequency is so vital, the more consistent you eat, the longer you will keep your body in a state in which it can optimally build muscle!
C. Meal frequency induces thermogenious. Every time you eat, your bodies temperature rises and you burn more calories. In other words, it keeps your metabolism extremely high, which can benefit you, by keeping you leaner on a bulk and also burning fat at a much higher rate on a cut.
